“Please fill the document”

Really? What should I fill it with?

Why wrong: In English there are thousands of expressions called phrasal verbs that use a particle (i.e. a preposition or adverb) after a verb. Examples of particles are up, down, in, out, on and off. Concerning information, there are two often misused idioms: fill in and fill out. Fill in refers to blanks or fields in a database whereas fill out refers to entire documents. The trick to remember that is that out is bigger than in, i.e. outside is much bigger than what room you are in right now.

Correct it:‘Please fill out the document”

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